It has recently been brought to the attention of our committee that the Channel 4 News is planning to broadcast a report it made about the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the principal member of Iran’s broader democratic opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and its members now living in Albania.

On the eve of a visit by Hassan Rouhani to Switzerland and Austria, Belgian prosecutors announced today the arrest of two Iranians in Belgium and an Iranian “diplomat” in Germany for “attempted terrorist murder and the preparation of a terrorist offence.”